The magic of magic lies in its being treated as fact, and Tenniel's painstakingly cross-hatched and hard-edged style, no different in manner from his equally famous political cartooning, captures the Looking Glass world because it so acidly renders our own.
Although Yeats constantly remade his style throughout his writing life, trimming off the finery of Victoriana, its frills and archaic reversals, to a modern, hard-edged style – what he called "passionate, normal speech" – his formal reading manner remained in the broadcasts he made a few years before his death.
So first of all we have to redefine national security in a hard-edged way.
She's beautiful with a hard-edged pachuca style.
This is JB edging from R&B into hard-edged funk, papa's bag and all.
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday.
"Hard Drive," a book about Microsoft's hard-edged business practices, also influenced Sporkin's decision.
Once abroad, the hard-edged, linear planarity characterizing his more familiar American work gave way to the painterly, richly embellished manner current in London, of which Elkanah Watson is a superior example while retaining vestiges of the artist's convincing early realistic style.
As bishop and cardinal, the later, hard-edged Ratzinger developed a strikingly coherent intellectual style.
Trump's trade man: Peter Navarro, President Trump's leading advisor on trade issues, is a hard-edged UC Irvine business professor who has turned off many of his peers with his abrasive manner and focus on protectionist policies, says Bloomberg.
"It's like a hard-edged business.
